Seriously Guys..

I never, ever said men were superior in any way. The fact that you would say that demonstrates the culture we live in. I don't think men have special power over me, quite the contrary. I'm talking about how the structural and economic oppression of women fosters a culture in which men feel entitled to give women unsolicited advice about our appearances predicated on the assumption that what men think of women is more important than how women feel about themselves.

Men have created and benefit from a society that intentionally subjugates the feminine. That's what I'm saying. If you're talking about 'special' powers, I'm talking about the economic and sociopolitical power men collectively assert over women every day often without even being aware it.

For instance, women really do routinely get paid less than men for the same work. It's not uncommon for an experienced female worker who, say, manages a department in a big box store like Walmart for several years to see an 18 year old boy with no work history make a larger wage than her out of the gate. I'm not making this up. I've witnessed it first hand.

Women's beauty products and the beauty standards that were created to market them and reinforce their social importance were created by manufacturers and the advertising industry back when pretty much only men had jobs that important. Women have spent most of the last century hating their bodies and natural appearances because of their indoctrination into those ideas and products. If you're talking about social media 'how-to's' etc., that culture is a product of that indoctrination and also a side effect of how expensive it is to be a woman who is physically acceptable to men and other women in an oppressively patriarchal culture.

The term 'mansplaining' might rub men the wrong way and frankly, that's the idea. It's born of the frustration that feminists face when voicing our grievances with men to men and being interrupted, talked over, or having men equate our voicing of our oppression with us oppressing them, as if having to hear that their privilege comes with a price (i.e., our autonomy, safety and basic human dignity,) is somehow abusive to their egos, I guess? I don't know, you tell me.